weka.classifiers.meta
Class Grading

java.lang.Object
  weka.classifiers.Classifier
      weka.classifiers.MultipleClassifiersCombiner
          weka.classifiers.RandomizableMultipleClassifiersCombiner
              weka.classifiers.meta.Stacking
                  weka.classifiers.meta.Grading

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, Randomizable, RevisionHandler, TechnicalInformationHandler

public class Grading
extends Stacking
implements TechnicalInformationHandler

Implements Grading. The base classifiers are "graded".

For more information, see

A.K. Seewald, J. Fuernkranz: An Evaluation of Grading Classifiers. In: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis: 4th International Conference, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo, 115-124, 2001.

BibTeX:

 @inproceedings{Seewald2001,
    address = {Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo},
    author = {A.K. Seewald and J. Fuernkranz},
    booktitle = {Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis: 4th International Conference},
    editor = {F. Hoffmann et al.},
    pages = {115-124},
    publisher = {Springer},
    title = {An Evaluation of Grading Classifiers},
    year = {2001}
 }
 

Valid options are:

 -M <scheme specification>
  Full name of meta classifier, followed by options.
  (default: "weka.classifiers.rules.Zero")

 -X <number of folds>
  Sets the number of cross-validation folds.

 -S <num>
  Random number seed.
  (default 1)

 -B <classifier specification>
  Full class name of classifier to include, followed
  by scheme options. May be specified multiple times.
  (default: "weka.classifiers.rules.ZeroR")

 -D
  If set, classifier is run in debug mode and
  may output additional info to the console

Version:

$Revision: 1.13 $

Author:

Alexander K. Seewald ([email protected]), Eibe Frank ([email protected])

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Grading()

Method Summary

double[]	distributionForInstance(Instance instance) Returns class probabilities for a given instance using the stacked classifier.
java.lang.String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
TechnicalInformation	getTechnicalInformation() Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.
java.lang.String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing classifier
static void	main(java.lang.String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
java.lang.String	toString() Output a representation of this classifier

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.meta.Stacking

buildClassifier, getCapabilities, getMetaClassifier, getNumFolds, getOptions, listOptions, metaClassifierTipText, numFoldsTipText, setMetaClassifier, setNumFolds, setOptions

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.RandomizableMultipleClassifiersCombiner

getSeed, seedTipText, setSeed

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.MultipleClassifiersCombiner

classifiersTipText, getClassifier, getClassifiers, setClassifiers

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.Classifier

classifyInstance, debugTipText, forName, getDebug, makeCopies, makeCopy, setDebug

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Grading

public Grading()

Method Detail

globalInfo

public java.lang.String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing classifier

Overrides:

globalInfo in class Stacking

Returns:

a description suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getTechnicalInformation

public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation()

Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.

Specified by:

getTechnicalInformation in interface TechnicalInformationHandler

Overrides:

getTechnicalInformation in class Stacking

Returns:

the technical information about this class

distributionForInstance

public double[] distributionForInstance(Instance instance)
                                 throws java.lang.Exception

Returns class probabilities for a given instance using the stacked classifier. One class will always get all the probability mass (i.e. probability one).

Overrides:

distributionForInstance in class Stacking

Parameters:

instance - the instance to be classified

Returns:

the class distribution for the given instance

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if instance could not be classified successfully

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Output a representation of this classifier

Overrides:

toString in class Stacking

Returns:

a string representation of the classifier

getRevision

public java.lang.String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Overrides:

getRevision in class Stacking

Returns:

the revision

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)

Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:

argv - should contain the following arguments: -t training file [-T test file] [-c class index]